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Singly poled thin film lithium niobate waveguide as a tunable source of photon pairs across telecom band

Muskan Arora·Jyoti Arya·Pranav Chokkara·Jasleen Lugani
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Spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC), especially in non-linear waveguides, serves as an important process to generate quantum states of light with desired properties. In this work, we report on a design of a strongly dispersive, singly poled thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) waveguide geometry which acts as a convertible source of photon pairs across telecom band with tunable spectral properties. Through our simulations, we demonstrate that by using this optimized waveguide geometry, two completely different yet desirable type II phase-matched SPDC processes are enabled using a single poling period. One process generates spectrally correlated non-degenerate photon pairs with one photon at 1310 nm (telecom O band) and the other at 1550 nm (telecom C band). The second SPDC process results in spectrally uncorrelated photon pairs in telecom C band at 1533 nm and 1567 nm respectively.We attribute this versatility of TFLN waveguide to its strong dispersion properties and make a comparative study with the existing weakly dispersive waveguide platforms. We believe that such a versatile source of photon pairs will serve as an important ingredient in various quantum optical tasks which require photons at different telecom bands and desired spectral properties.

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Muskan Arora, Jyoti Arya, Pranav Chokkara, Jasleen Lugani. 2024-11-26. Singly poled thin film lithium niobate waveguide as a tunable source of photon pairs across telecom band. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17369

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